Business Development Executive

We are looking for a skilled Java Developer with hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture to join our dynamic development team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable applications that meet the needs of modern enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities:

💠Design, develop, test, and deploy Java-based applications using Spring Boot and Microservices.

💠Collaborate with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions.

💠Build and maintain RESTful APIs for various business functionalities.

💠Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance tuning.

💠Ensure best practices in code quality, security, and software development lifecycle (SDLC).

💠Maintain and improve existing systems and troubleshoot issues as needed.

💠Implement and manage containerized applications (e.g., using Docker, Kubernetes) where applicable.

💠Integrate third-party APIs and work with database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL).

💠Monitor and maintain application performance and scalability.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

💠Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

💠Strong proficiency with Spring Boot and the broader Spring Framework.

💠Proven experience in building and deploying Microservices.

💠Knowledge of RESTful web services and API design.

💠Experience with databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

💠Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and version control systems like Git.

💠Understanding of containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes is a plus).

💠Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Job Responsibilities:

• Contact potential or existing customers to inform them about the Housing Project
  (Contact Numbers will be provided by the company)
• Answer queries about the project and the company
• Find out customer requirements
• Persuade prospects for a site visit
• Enter and update customer information in the database

Requirements:

• Good knowledge of word, excel, and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication skills
• Convincing ability
  
  

Our client is an e-retailer of wellness products and provider of personalized ayurvedic consultation to its client.

• Managing Director’s calendar, tasks, calls and assessing the priority of appointments and reallocation as necessary
• Maintaining executive’s agenda and assisting in planning appointments, board meetings, conferences, etc.
• Attending meetings and preparing “Minute of Meetings”, organizing meetings with timely reminders and ensuring that the Director is well prepared for those meetings, preparing agendas, pre-meeting briefings and meeting papers
• Managing Directors' and other accompanying guests' travel arrangements (including visas/ accommodation)
• Maintaining Director’s office systems, including data management and filing
• Ensuring necessary documentation of tasks and projects as advised and required as per good documentation practices
• Maintaining records of the Director’s contacts, screen calls inquiries and requests and dealing with them when appropriate
• Supervising all incoming/ outgoing mail
• Assisting Director in researching and following up with the action on matters which fall within the Director’s responsibility– chasing responses, triggering follow-up action
• Producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations for the Director
• Meeting and greeting visitors empathetically at all levels of seniority
• Assisting the Director in connecting to various people over the phone and dial-ins
• Handling sensitive and complex issues in a professional and objective manner

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or Vocational degree or diploma
• 1-2 years of proven experience as executive secretary or similar administrative role
• Excellent IT skills, including a working knowledge of presentation software packages, preferably MS Office, Google Workspace and PowerPoint
• Strong ability to organize effectively, delegate responsibility, solve problems quickly and communicate clearly
• Administrative qualities to manage smooth office operations
• Basic research capabilities
• Ability to operate calling software
• Good listening skills
• Ability to enable professional interactions with a wide range of contacts, both internal and external
• Excellent time management, communication skills, interpersonal skills and organizational skills
• Good negotiation skills and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy
• A flexible, proactive approach to work including the ability to prioritize and re-prioritize
• Ability to deal with sensitive information with discretion and to maintain confidentiality
• Good professional outlook towards task closure
• Confidence when interacting with seniors and people with authority      

Why We Need You 

Our current engineering team is growing fast and we’ll need leadership to support a focused team effort across a variety of projects and priorities.

We’re looking for someone who will help us with:

• Manage, mentor, and grow an extremely talented and energetic engineering team
• Define our engineering culture and process broadly as our first management hire
• Work closely with product and design in determining the strategy and direction of your team
• Define the development process of the team to create a constructive and efficient work environment

Your Role:

• Lead the development of APIs, customer/developer experience, and supporting systems
• Be actively involved in our long-term strategic direction, working closely with the CTO/co-founder
• Experience scaling teams and processes in a high growth environment
• Empower the team to achieve a high level of technical productivity
• A strong belief in high engineer agency, responsibility, and accountability
• Own the existing SCRUM & SPRINTS & make sure throughput and DEADLINES are me
• A compassionate but clear and focused approach to leadership
• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment

Experience that would help you succeed: (Note, we don't expect you to a spike in all aspects, but to grow there in time)

Growth-minded: You have a keen product sense and an exceptional track record for delivery, as well as examples of innovation and/or influential impact.

Experienced: You will develop our current team, hire additional team members, and empower each member to have an owner mentality within their role. You have a large task ahead and building a high-output team will be your top priority.

Driven: You have experience in the past that lends itself to being able to dive in on tactical problems, while also being able to scale with the company as the needs change.

Technical: You’re able to leverage a strong technical background and have hands-on experience in solving large and difficult technical problems, with the ability to make decisions swiftly and thoughtfully.

Apply only if the answer is yes to all of the following :

• 3+ years of Engineering Manager of team size 10-50 experience
• Proven ability to manage high complexity projects
• Motivated by a fast-paced, high impact environment
• Proactive and comfortable with ambiguity
• Well versed with Hiring as well as Firing
• HAVE worked in a B2C Startup for at least a year?
• CAN join in within 30-45 days?

Responsibilities:

• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression)
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies
• Analyze test results on database impacts and usability
• Provide support and documentation
• Design and develop automation scripts when needed
• Analyze user stories, use cases and requirements
• Participate in product design reviews and provide inputs on potential problems
• Apply quality engineering principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams

Required qualifications:

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Applications Testing with exposure to API and automation testing
• Working knowledge of popular test management software and SQL
• Knowledge of at least one programming/ scripting language
• Excellent communication and critical thinking skills
• Good organizational skills and detail-oriented mindset
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Team player
• Good time management skills
• B.E / B.Tech degree in Computer Engineering / Computer Science.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Mobile App testing on Android and iOS platforms
• Knowledge of performance testing
• Knowledge of at least one database management system
• Interest in data analysis
• Exposure to startup work culture

Basic Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of algorithms/data structures is a must
• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team

ABOUT US:

Magic Crate is an innovative early childhood learning company that is a pioneer and market leader in the area of discovery kits for young children. Magic Crate was set up in early 2014 by young parents from IIT, IIM, NID and Georgia Tech as a subscription service that delivers activity boxes based on fresh new themes to their customers doorsteps each month. The activities, based on science, arts, games & role play, are designed by a multi- disciplinary team of early childhood experts and specialist designers. The carefully curated activities cleverly merge educational outcomes with hours of fun and laughter for young children. 

Magic Crate is a dynamic company growing fast, and we are looking for energised and ambitious people to join us on that journey.

What this means is at this stage you will be core - influencing all aspects of development. Working with us you will enjoy a fast-paced environment with opportunities to help grow the business, and your own professional career.

ROLE:

As a Business Development Associate at Magic Crate, you will be joining the core team  responsible for helping to shape the company’s growth narrative. Working closely with the Team Lead’s your role will be to help deliver sales growth by developing and executing sales strategy developed.

The perfect candidate will be systematic and organised, a proven closer of any sales in any sector, with a flair for creatively communicating innovative new services which benefit a wide variety of customers, who are parents of children of different age groups.

WHAT'S ON OFFER:

• Competitive salary with an attractive incentives which is performance based.
• A strong appraisal and promotion policy.

WHAT'S INVOLVED:

• New Customer Acquisition - Focus on converting fresh, warm leads into confirmed orders. 
• Contacting,Promoting and selling our innovative products to Customers. 
• Able to negotiate and close Sales in routine situations.
• Renewal Team - Focused on extending existing subscriptions or renewing expired subscriptions. 
• Follow-up on the customers. 
• Developing existing and new customer relationships. 
• Meeting agreed upon Sales targets and Sales Objectives. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Explain the customer on the product, its features, benefits and discuss special promotional offers available. 
• A typical day will require a maximum of 60 to 70 calls, depending on your Targets achieved. 
• Our Customers are parents of children between the age group of 2 to 13 Years.
• Talk to new customers, follow up on past customer orders for tracking and checking on reports. 
• A regular day involves making 4 to 5 subscription sales.  

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS: 

• Strong Communication skills with Multilinguistic skills.
• Strong Interpersonal skills, motivating and achieving.
• Passionate about a career in Sales.
• An influencer with consummate negotiation skills.
• Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection. 
• Charismatic team player.
• A high degree of self-motivation and Ambition.